Last week we offered a survey on Continuous Integration and Release Management practices to webcast attendees and readers of CMCrossroads. The results confirmed some of our suspicions about the state of software development. Most teams are using some ...

One of the interesting tensions we see is in how various teams promote approved or tested changes towards production and release. In an ideal world, our developers would work on various bug fixes and new features and as we neared release, a release ...

While rereading Martin Fowler's classic paper, Continuous Integration, it struck me that its approach to Continuous Integration (CI) is fundamentally flawed. Fowler, like most of the CI community, seems to argue that CI is about building rather than ...